we've advised in europe as well is a strategy that says let's do everything we can to grow now even as we lock in a long term plan to stabilize our debt and our deficits and start bringing them down in a steady sensible way. and by the way, that's what we proposed last year, that's what's proposed in my budget. what i said is let's make long term spending cuts. let's initiate long term reforms. let's reduce our health care spending. let's make sure we got a pathway, a glide path to fiscal responsibility, but at the same time let's not under invest in the things that we need to do right now to grow. and that recipe of short term investments in growth and jobs with a long term path of fiscal

responsibility is the right approach to take for, i think, not only the united states but also for europe. okay. >> republicans are saying you're blaming the europeans for the failures of your own policies. >> the truth of the matter is that, as i said, we've created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private-sector is doing fine. where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help they got in the past from federal government and don't have the same kind of

flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in. and so, you know, if republicans want to be helpful, if they really want to move forward and put people back to work, what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and the local governments and how do we help the construction industry because the recipes that they are promoting are basically the kinds of policies that would add weakness to the economy. would result in further layoffs. would not provide relief in the housing market. and would result, i think, most economists estimate in lower growth and fewer jobs not more. all right. >> thank you, sir.

the speech details national security issues, reports of terrorists that were killed that you supervised. what's your reaction to this information getting out in public and second of all what's your reaction of lawmakers accusing your team to leaking these details to promote your re-election bid. >> first of all i won't comment on the details of what are supposed to be classified items. second, as commander-in-chief, the issues that you've mentioned touch on our national security, touch on critical issues of war and peace, and they are classified for a reason.

because they are sensitive. and because the people involved may in some cases be in danger if they are carrying out some of these missions. and when this information or reports, whether true or false surface on the front page of newspapers, that makes the job of folks on the front lines tougher. and it makes my job tougher. which is why since i've been in office my attitude has been zero tolerance for these kinds of leaks and speculation. now we have mechanisms in place

where if we can root out folks who have leaked they will suffer consequences. in some cases its criminal, these are criminal acts when they release information like this. and we will continue duct thorough investigations as we have in the past. the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong. and, you know, people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. we're dealing with issues that can touch on the safety and

security of the american people, our families. or our military personnel. or our allies. and so we don't play with that. and it is a source of consistent frustration not just for my administration but for previous administrations when this stuff happens. and we will continue to let everybody know in government or after they leave government that they have certain obligations that they should carry out. but, as i think has been indicated from these articles, whether or not the information they received is true, the writers of these articles have all stated unequivocally they didn't come from this white house and that's not how we operate. >> the investigation is going on now, is that what you're saying? >> what i'm saying is we

consistently, whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public, we try to find out where that came from. all right. okay. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> can we ask you about wisconsin? >> there you have the president of the united states answering some questions making a statement on the economy, questions were on the economy except that third question was on the allegations that the white house has been deliberately leaking classified information, sensitive information to try to promote the president's re-election and you heard the president get rather animated and emotionally, categorically denying say these allegations offensive, some allegations coming from influential republican leaders in congress including senator

john mccain, and other chairmen of various committees, republicans in the house as well as republican leaders in the senate. there's going to be a lot more short fallout on this, i suspect the president wanted to focus almost exclusively on the economy, the economic recovery, what's going on in europe, the spill over effect in the united states, but his answer to that third question on the leaks will certainly be, will be dominating the news and generate further reaction. we're already being told that the republican leaders in congress will hold a separate news conference around 12:30 p.m. to react to what we heard from the president and the presidential nominee, presumptive nominee mitt romney will react as well. jessica yellin was in the briefing room. she's joining us now. jessica as our chief white house correspondent, you saw the president get operate animateed in response to that question about the leaks of sensitive classified information.

>> yeah. he was forceful on that one, em writers, but can they say that definitively. they can't. they have to rely that on the writers of these articles to assert that. he also did not make clear -- he suggested that there's no current investigation at the white house right now on this issue. it's clear that this is going be an ongoing story and a headache for this white house for some time because no doubt as it continues they can't stay away, you know, that answer alone is not going to keep the questions from coming. and it is one of those issues because of the bipartisan nature of the inquiry on the hill that will continue to pound away at

the white house. as for the rest of this, it did seem the president was on a bit of the defensive, raising concern about europe, something that seemed sort of vague and out, you know, sort of a vague threat to the u.s., a potential possible threat down the road. really what he was doing was hammering congress yet again with as we've said proposals that have been out there since september. he did not propose any new compromises. he did not propose even new ideas that are democratic ideas, for example. not even, a you know, republican idea. it is, again, the president facing off, squaring off against congress in an election year saying we can't get our agenda done because the republicans are obstructing. and true or not, the bottom line is that the american people see is washington not working. and his data is accurate. you know the private-sector you can talk to ali and christine,

the private-sector has grown under him. the public sector jobs are suffering. the bottom line, the economy is suffering sluggish growth and washington could be doing more to help and so everybody in washington now is looking sort of blameless and everybody wants somebody to do something and i'm not sure this is enough to make congress change its position or to even make the american people feel that the president is moving forward to change in a way to do something different, to make the economy feel on a forward foot, wolf. >> suspect you're right, jessica. i suspect gridlock over the next five months between now and the election in november will continue. let me bring in candy crowley into this conversation. candy you've covered congress for a long time. do you know anything foirn senate needs 60 votes to break a filibuster. the republicans have a

significant lopsided majority in the house of representatives. i assume you agree with all of us that what the president said today is not necessarily going to inspire the republicans to change their attitude and there's all of a sudden going extensive bipartisan cooperation. >> no. it's not going to get anyone to change their mind. in general what's happened with a lot of these things he's talking about, for instance the help for state and local government, the republicans have argued we've done that. and now we're back to putting money in so that handing money to states and local government whose have to balance their budgets and therefore can't operate in the red the the way federal government can. we've done that before. as far as helping those who have kept up with their homes but under water and could take advantage of low interest rates that particular bill, they said the other housing programs that we spent money on have not worked the way they should have worked. when you look at the proposal

that would put people back to work in those, we used to call them shovel ready projects, they also, republicans also argue that doesn't do it. we need the big ball game not this small ball game. so i suspect you'll hear that from the republicans. everybody, what's interesting to me is everyone says a lot of these big decisions that you look at, not these particularly but the bigger decision, about the debt ceiling and the tax cuts and spending cuts, the tax hikes and the spending cuts we're going wait and the election will settle this and yet i have not, have yet talk toni politician who actually believes that the election will settle anything. that suddenly in the senate there will be 60 votes for one party. nobody thinks that will happen. so they are waiting for an election for results to show them which way to go and the results are not likely to do that. so i suspect at the end of this year there will be a lot of people hanging out on christmas eve and new year's eve trying to

figure out the same problems by the way they were still trying to figure out last new year's eve. >> that lame duck session after the election will be really, really important. christine romans is watching all of this. president opened with a strong statement about the european economic problems, christine. ep said there's fears of a renewed recession in europe right now and if in fact that were to happen europe being america's largest economic trading partner that would have a spill over effect on the recovery here in the united states. >> it's not hypothetical or a prognosis. it's happening. look, we're already seeing it happen. u.s. exports to the eurozone have slowed almost 5% from january to april. and whether the president talked about paris, madrid, milwaukee, what's happening in those economies affects companies doing business here in this country and that's a real

concern. so even as we were concerned about how slowly we're seeing job creation in this country, europe's problems, if they get worse will continue to hit export related companies in the u.s. and that's going to be more job loss, more political pressure for this president. and really brings to the fore that the number one issue here is your job, your job security, your neighbor's job, your ability to get a job, and the feeling that we're just not creating them robustly. the president said something that was interesting. he said the private-sector is doing fine. it's the local state and local government jobs that we're concerned about and the cuts from that level. i think there are some in the private-sector that are doing just fine but we need to see private-sector job creation better than we're seeing it as well. this has been -- this has been a slow jobs recovery. he pointed out that it is morrow bust than the last jobs recovery from a recession and that may be true, but it still doesn't make people feel better about only

69,000 jobs created last month. >> we'll see what happens this month. it's significant development when you take a look at what he's saying about private-sector jobs, you know, increasing steadily. the problem being state and local jobs, construction jobs, a million construction jobs need to be created right now. some of these huge corporations, these fortune 500 companies are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe even a trillion or a couple trillion dollars. >> 2 trillion. >> they don't want to invest this money and start creating jobs because they are nervous what's going to happen after election. they are nervous about the tax struck purr. they are nervous about the european situation. you can't blame some of these companies doing it. how do you convince these companies to take that money, that cash that they have that they are sitting on and use it to start building infrastructure, creating jobs? >> it's all about confidence. when they have confidence that

denainsd amand in the u.s., and on tax front they will spend that money. another important point and something that has not happened in this administration or the last administration. for many years companies have been getting more and more of their revenue from overseas and you look at some of these big companies where 40%, 50%, 60% of their revenue is coming from overseas that's where they are creating jobs. that's a bigger story. that's a structural employment story in this country that kind of gets lost in the shuffle about pass this or don't do this or tax the rich to put construction workers to work building bridges. that's a near term cyclical problem. companies are sitting on cash because they want to spend cash overseas. >> they are not sure what will happen. christine, thanks very much.

kara phillips is fanneding by. the economy, jobs issue number one but you also heard the presidentawayi iweighing in on agencieses, including john mccain that the obama administration has deliberately leaked classified information to score political points and then president get re-elected and you heard the president of the united states express his outrage about that. he says that's offensive, that is wrong, people need to get a better sense. i think he was reacting directly to senator john mccain among others. >> we heard jessica yellin right there at the white house say this is definitely a story that's not going to go away, wolf, so we'll continue to follow all the details on that. wolf, thank you so much. we're also following a major worldwide roundup of suspected child predators right now. we're being told 190 arrests in the uk, u.s., spain, argentina and the philippines have taken

place. 18 rescues also of underage victims. called operation o'ryan and it took out throughout the month of may targeting people possession, produce child pornography. it was led by the child completation investigations unit of the u.s. homeland security. we will follow more on that story as well. another story happening this hour. a deadly outbreak of e. coli spreading in the south. already 14 people in six states have gotten sick. one person has died. we still don't know where the bacteria originated. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. i was asking you a number of questions about this. as a parent i'm even more concerned about this. what do we know at this point about where this possibly has come from? >> all we know it's a strain of e. coli called 0145. this is a vicious strain of e. coli. proipt duce toxins.

you have the bacteria and produce toxins to shut down your whole body. we're told they suspect that this has come from one source and that's because when they look at this under the microscope the molecular fingerprint is identical when you look at person to person to person. and you can see, you can seeing right here this is how they do it. they collect specimens from all people. they now have to figure out what the source is. >> we have one infant that has dined new orleans. >> right. then a number of people that have gotten sick. you were explaining to me they are doing very intense interviews with these individuals to try to track down the source. tell me how that works. >> they sit down with the cdc investigators, state investigators will sit down with people and get a list of everything they eat. they want to know everything. they will particularly pay attention to meat products and produce. we've seen e. coli in beef, lettuce and they want to know what people ate and when they ate it.

they have been seeing these cases since april 15th. this is not an entirely new thing. they know that something was out there in the food system since april 15th and that it seems like it's still out there because they are still hearing new case. we were told earlier today 13 cases now we're hearing 16 cases. this is growing. >> so pretty much it didn't take place at a restaurant. >> right. let me correct myself i said 16 cases, i should have said 14 cases. so it's probably not just, you know, joe's restaurant in one place that had one sick waiter who got everybody sick. you're seeing this spread across six states which is what we're being told now. six states. when you're seeing that it makes you enthusiast it's a food that's gotten into the food system. for example perhaps it's a meat product which is distributed widely. perhaps it's spinach. perhaps it's lettuce. we just don't know. we know it's in alabama, florida, georgia, louisiana and then two more states and no one

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council to come together. also blamed siro for a failure of a six-point peace plan. the situation is "grey's anatomy". diplomatic efforts are dire. jill what now? >> reporter: if we knew that, what now is basically the only game in town and that is this plan, can you call it, it's the cou kofi annan plan, the six-point plan. they are trying to bring knit to a contact group. it would bring it off line from the u.n. security council. bring it into a group of countries, rather wide group of countries. it would try to figure out who they individually can influence and affect. that would mean the russians would, hopefully work on president assad. convince him that he has to go. the americans and others would work on the opposition, convince them that they have to somehow come to the table, begin to talk

and get this process going. it's a real long shot. you know, i was at that session upstairs before they went into the meeting. neither secretary clinton or kofi annan had anything concrete to say. it's a very big challenge. one of the keys is trying to get assad to realize that it's game over. but he certainly hasn't realized that yet. >> what if the u.n. security council? why continue to be so divided. why can't it come to terms on something? >> you know, that's a place where you have the power of veto. that's the idea of this contact group. in the security council, you know, russia wants to use its veto for a variety of things. right now, for instance, it feels that the opposition is carrying out violence as well. so what they say is look the government can't stop violence if the opposition is doing it too. so it becomes kind of a catch 22

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convict. he was trying to get them thrown out based on legal issues. now that won't happen. >> okay. so we're looking towards this monday then for sure. >> reporter: we're looking at this monday for sure. he's been making continuous arguments for a delay, but none of them have worked in his favor. a jury was -- they finished picking a jury two days ago. so they are ready to go. they gave the jury yesterday and today off, and they will be back in court on monday morning. now the cases that were dismissed it's important to note some of the most notorious, the one that happened on the penn state campus where a coach said he walked in and witnessed something. another one a prosecutor back in 1988 decided there wasn't enough evidence to pursue. these are cases that have been talked about a lot in the last seven months and now it turns out the jury will hear about them. >> okay. we'll keep following it. keep checking in with us as you

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a lot of break egg developing news. this has come in from belmont park. i'll have another won't be racing in tomorrow's belmont stakes dashing hopes of the first triple crown victory since 1978. gone. what the heck happened? >> reporter: we don't know much but we spoke by phone briefly with the spokesman for the trainer of oil have another, doug o'neill.

the spokesman saying the horse is scratched. there's a press conference scheduled at 1:00 in the barn area by the trainer and owner of the horse. now i'll have another came out much earlier than usual for practice run at about 6:00 a.m. this morning. and some racetrack observers said that was a little bit out of the ordinary. now perhaps that was a real run and then they found something that was wrong with the horse afterwards. the horse had been loaded into a state barn detention area along with all the other contenders for the belmont stakes and some thought southeast horses were not too happy with different surroundings. either way we'll know in 40 minutes or so why oil have another scratched on the eve of racing glory going for the triple crown of horse racing, the kentucky derby, the preakness in the triple crown. since 1978 and for another year it appears there will be no triple crown this year. >> wow. so more than likely this is a

physical problem, a health problem? >> reporter: well, don't know. it would appear it would have to be something for them to not to want to enter this house. we can't imagine anything else in the past. the trainer has in california has been cited for many violations. we'll have to wait and see. it would appear there has to be something not sound with authors, whether something happened in the cantoring around belmont as oval this hurricane warning. for some reason he was out early at 5:30, 6:00 a.m. and whether to avoid a lot of other prying eyes. we had some video of it. he's again galloping, getting accustomed to track. doug o'neill was not putting him into full workout. so this is a big shock. and belmont could have had at least 125,000 fans on a nice early summer, late spring day.

he was trying to be the 12th winner of the triple crown of horse racing. so i'll have another if you're just tuning in, scratched from the belmont stakes. >> all right. richard roth, thanks so much. we'll follow the story. fresh off their victory in the wisconsin recall conservatives are converging on chicago to plan their next moves. and on some potential vice presidents. we go to the midwestern cpac conference. this landscape especially noteworthy you're in barack obama's backyard. >> that's right. in fact, we're not even that far from president obama's campaign re-election headquarters in downtown chicago. we're in rosemont, illinois. downtown chicago is 20 minutes away. i want to get to some news that's being made. rick santorum, he just got off stage a few moments ago. he spoke with reporters before

his actual speech, and said that he's going to come out and campaign with and for governor romney. now this is significant, because this is the first time that the two men, if and when they appear publicly together would essentially be putting the wouldn't of the gop, primary gop behind them. i pressed santorum about details if he spoke with the campaign and worked out details of when and where these campaign events, these joint campaign events between them might happen and he said, you know, he didn't go into details. i've done some things at state conventions on their behalf but he didn't go into anything further than that. santorum announced the formation of his political action committee with the express goal of pushing some of his pet issues but electing mitt romney and so that's one of the things that we're watching. we're going take a listen at some of the other speakers coming up, some other potential

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construction workers back to building roads, teachers back in the classroom and police and firefighters back out into the communities. that was the public message today from preb to congress. it happened 45 minutes ago. the president hammered congress to act in remarks that he made less than 30 minutes ago. >> it left most of the jobs plan

just sitting there, and in light of the head winds that we're facing right now, i urge them to reconsider because there are steps we can take right now. there's work to be done. there are workers to do it. let's put them back to work right now. >> let's get straight to kate bolduan on capitol hill. kate, what's the buzz on the hill right now about the speech? >> reporter: the buzz, you know, of course, we're always looking for congressional reaction, specifically with this democratic president, republican reaction. we will hear kind of maybe we could call it the official republican reaction coming up at 12:30 eastern because during the president's remarks we received notice that house speaker john boehner and the majority leader eric cantor would be holding a press conference at 12:30 eastern. we will be waiting to hear from him, but just a moment ago i received a statement from the top republican in the senate that may serve as a bit of a preview of what i am sure you can expect to hear from house speaker john boehner and eric cantor. senator mitch mcconnell in this

statement, i will read it to you in part. he says whether the president wantsds to acknowledge it or not, we are now living in the obama economy, and no post it note proposal can reverse the damage done by his policies over the past three-and-a-half years. senator mcconnell goes on to slam the president on one thing in particular, the desire to let the bush era tax cuts on higher income earners expire at the end of the year. that's something that's obviously been in the news a lot recently, and mitch mcconnell goes on to say raising taxes on job creators in this slow economy is simply on the elixir for his failed policiepolicies. our viewers are thinking, what's changed here? it seems the reaction is not much. it doesn't seem the president's words have had the impact maybe he was hoping for or he probably himself didn't really think those remarks in that press conference, kyra, were going to drastically change the partisan environment up here. they have very different positions on how to get the economy going again, and those job proposals you listed out in

the introduction have not gone anywhere in the house or really the senate so far since they were introduced, and you can't really expect they're going to go anywhere now either. >> well, and for months and months and months we've been talking about partisan politics, right? and we've talked about congress and being dubbed the do-nothing congress, and the president pointed to that in this speech saying, look, this is why a lot of legislation hasn't gone anywhere. let's take a listen to what the president said and let's talk about this. >> reporter: okay. >> if congress decides despite all that that they aren't going to do anything about this simply because it's an election year, then they should explain to the american people why. there's going to be plenty of time to debate our respective plans for the future. that's a debate i'm eager to have. but right now people in this town should be focused on doing everything we can to keep our recovery going. >> but you've even pointed out that we really haven't seen much

change, and we really haven't seen much hope that everybody is going to get on board here. >> reporter: and part of it is -- and a lot of it is we talk about this all the time, is the fact that we are in an election year. the president is accusing republicans and democrats are accusing republicans of not wanting to come together and work on a bipartisan fashion because they want the economy to look bad so it helps their -- so it's politically advantageous for them. republicans on the flip side say that what the president is proposing isn't going to do anything for the economy in the short term to really spur economic growth. just some of the proposals we're talking about, kyra, he talked about money for roads and bridges and construction. well, that points to a transportation bill that negotiations right now without getting into the detail is deadlocked here on capitol hill over cost and a couple other issues. the money for state and local governments to put teachers and firefighters back to work, that was proposed way back when, and that has gone nowhere and

republicans aren't likely to want to get on board with it this time because for them that reminds them of the stimulus package and we know how much they like that. >> as she says with a grin. kate bolduan there on the hill, thanks so much. and the president also did focus on europe's debt crisis and asked congress to adopt another legislation or more legislation rather to help counter economic headwinds from europe that are holding back the nation's economic recovery. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. [ male announcer ] dosing and application sites between these products differ. women and children should avoid contact with application sites. discontinue androgel and call your doctor if you see unexpected signs of early puberty in a child,

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transgender contestants into the pageant. phillip phillips has undergone surgery to remove several kidney stones. he had a 6 1/2 hour surgery to remove them. the singer endured excruciating pain during his run on the pain. a source close to the show says the surgery went well though and he's looking forward to the idol tour in july. after serving five years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit, nfl hopeful brian banks is getting the shot that he always wanted, an offer to try out for a team. 26-year-old banks was 17 and a high school football standout when he was charged with the rape and kidnapping of a childhood acquaintance. his accuser eventually admitted she had lied and banks was exonerated last month. yesterday's workout with the seattle seahawks went so well that banks was invited to a formal tryout next week during the team's off-season mini camp. thanks for watching,

everyone. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter @kyracnn or facebook. cnn continues with fredricka whitfield. >> hello, everyone, i'm in for suzanne malveaux. let's get right to it. there will be no triple crown winner this year. that's because the horse named i'll have another, the heavy favorite to win tomorrow's bell mott stakes, has been pulled from the race. this just happened in the last half hour. the horse did work out at the track earlier this morning. you're seeing the images, but no reason has been given yet for the scratch. we'll have a live report from belmont later on this hour. and trying to contain a deadly e. coli outbreak. close to a dozen cases in four southern states. one of them a toddler in new orleans died. investigators say they know the cases are linked. they are on the hunt for a common source. conservatives say they're taking the fight for the country's future to president obama's backyard. the conservative political action conference known as cpac

is meeting in chicago today. the conference brings together a who's who from republican politics, including some possible vice presidential contenders. results from a vp straw poll are expected later on today. and president obama pushes congress to take action on the economy. he says the u.s. is facing headwinds from europe and congress needs to pass a jobs bill and other measures to boost the economy. >> they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there, and in light of the headwinds that we're facing right now, i urge them to reconsider because there are steps we can take right now. there's work to be done. there are workers to do it. let's put them back to work right now. >> let's bring in chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. so, jessica, what's the president's strategy here to deal with the weak recovery in the u.s. and the possible fallout from the crisis in europe? >> reporter: hi, fredricka. his goal is twofold. one, it is to alert the american

people to the unfolding crisis in europe and make everyone aware of the fact that if it gets worse, it could impact the u.s. in a bad way. two, to press congress, essentially hammer republicans, for perceived -- for their inaction. the goal here is to say that things could get worse, and that there are steps that congress could take to cushion the u.s. from any blows that could come from europe, and if the republicans in congress don't take action, the u.s. economy could suffer. now, of course, republicans will see it differently, but this is the strategic move by the white house at this point both to help with the economy and also to help the president in an election year, fredricka. >> and then one of the final questions that the president was asked was about those leaks on intelligence matters, and the president was very forceful in his response. >> reporter: he said that he has a zero tolerance policy for

leaks. he said that he believes these leaks make the work of people in the intelligence community around the world much harder, and to any accusations that these leaks were in any way from his white house and deliberate, here is what he had to say. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong, and people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. >> reporter: now, when asked twice if there is an investigation going on, he didn't say if there was an investigation going on in the white house. he did not say. and he referred us to the authors of the articles in

saying that there were no leaks at all from anyone in the white house. you notice his wording was that the notion that my white house would purposely release classified information is offensive. to the exact question, did anyone, he says the authors of the books say they didn't. i'd finally point out, fredricka, if you will allow me this, we are all focusing on how the information got out, but we should not lose sight of the actual information itself. we in the media do have an interest in whistle-blowers, folks in this building would call them leakers, and we would never have the opportunity to know about so-called kill lists or drone strikes if it weren't for leakers, if you will. so there are two sides to all these stories, and some of us might want to be able to question whether we should necessarily punish all leakers at all times. something to consider. >> all right, jessica. meantime, you know, what's on tap for the president looking forward as he tries to strike a balance between his job as the president and candidate for

presidency, a second term? >> reporter: well, he is both taking his job as president -- i mean he's working here throughout the day. he has a meeting with the leader of the philippines, and i think is today he welcoming the giants as part of his ceremonial duties, and they will be hitting the campaign trail next week, raising money, and he's going to visit -- i'm not sure what i can and can't say because it's all in the schedule, but the bottom line is it's an ongoing balance between governing from here and constantly hitting the campaign trail and raising money. i think we'll see a lot more campaign events coming up, a lot more pressure on congress to pass the jobs bill which has been languishing there mostly since september. >> jessica yellin, thanks so much, in washington at the white house. today the world's top diplomats sum up their frustration with syria with three words, a real, real

challenge. that's kofi annan's understated trial after he and secretary of state hillary clinton met at the united nations. they talked about one thing, syria, and how to galvanize the world community to step in, stop the killing in syria, and prevent all-out civil war there. this is the city of homs. it's anything but peaceful for a country operating under a so-called u.n. peace plan. syrian military artillery rained down today in homs and other cities. furious syrians poured into the street and fought with riot police. also today we learn that the united nations observers finally were allowed into the village where nearly 80 people were killed in what witnesses say was a massacre of civilian men, women, and children. arwa damon is in beirut, lebanon, since cnn crews are not allowed in syria these days, arwa. how were those u.n. observers able to see the massacre site

finally? >> reporter: well, it seems as if they were able to navigate through the various government checkpoints and, in fact, not get shot at on the route. those who we-- were the two this that happened yesterday that prevented them from accessing the site. some of the other reporters who have been granted visas said they witnessed buildings that were burnt, some had clear indication that is rocket propelled grenades and other artillery had been fired into them, describing scenes where blood was on the floor where it seemed like people were trying to clean things up, pushing all sorts of debris and clumps of brain matter into corners trying to clean up the aftermath of this truly horrific massacre. as you said there, nearly 80 people killed, and more than half of them according to opposition activists, were women and children, fredricka. >> arwa damon, thanks so much,

joining us from beirut, lebanon. we want to take you out to council bluffs, iowa. you heard earlier the president of the united states who spelled out from the white house his view of the economy. well, now the man who wants his job, mitt romney, is in council bluffs with his response to some of the president's talking points this morning. >> -- has dropped by 10% over the last four years. where there have been record number of home foreclosures. for the president of the united states to stand up and say the private sector is doing fine is going to go down in history. it's an extraordinary miscalculation and misunderstanding by a president who is out of touch, and we're going that take back this country and get america working again. [ cheers and applause ] and his answer for economic vitality, by the way, was, of course, pushing aside the private sector which he said is

doing fine. instead, he wants to add more to government. he wants another stimulus. he wants to hire more government workers. he says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. did he not get the message of wisconsin? the american people did. it's time for us to cut back on government and help the american people. now, he says something else pretty interesting the other night on a fund-raising speech in beverly hills. he said i keep a little checklist in my desk at the oval office. i have got a to-do list, he said, and every so often i take a look at it, and i say, you know what? we're doing okay. isn't that amazing? again, these comments he's making just suggest someone who doesn't understand what's happening in the country he has been elected to lead. the people in iowa saw his campaign launched here in iowa. it was a campaign of hope and

optimism. it was a campaign of getting america stronger again and cutting back on the deficit. how disappointed the people of iowa have become over these last 3 1/2 years and how committed we are to having real change that gets the american people back to work again and sees rising incomes again. [ cheers and applause ] i got a copy here of his to-do list from his desk, you see. i was able to sneak that out. there are a few things that are missing. missing is lead a real recovery. missing is reduce the deficit. missing is save medicare and social security. missing is help small business. [ applause ] there were some things on the list though that i wish he'd take off. one was pass obama care. that one shouldn't have been there. one was stall the development of

coal, oil, and natural gas. one was multiply regulations on small business. and one was divide the american people. it's time to have a president who remembers that we are one nation under god, and i will be. [ cheers and applause ] and i won't have to have a long to-do list in my drawer at the white house. my to-do list is written ou my heart and the first three entries are these, jobs, jobs, and jobs. i'm going to go to work to get america working again. [ cheers and applause ] you see, i have traveled the country over the past couple of years and seen people of all walks of life, and these are tough times for a lot of people. people are having a hard time making ends meet in corners of our country. i was in ft. myers, florida, met

a guy named chris davis. chris davis and his son traveled with me -- >> republican candidate mitt romney taking a point, counter point method to the president's remarks. mitt romney saying the president underscored the private sector has grown under him. in romney's views, he says he's calling it, quote, a miscalculation by a president who is out of touch. we'll continue to monitor the sentiments of mitt romney there in council bluffs, iowa. momentarily somewhere in this hour also the republican response coming from john boehner and eric cantor on capitol hill. we'll bring that to you live as it happens. here is what we're working on for this hour. it's all in the genes. the latest science tells pregnant women exactly what they can expect on the big day. it's called stop and frisk. >> the police officers pull up, really close to the curb, very aggressively, hop out oft car,

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there will be no triple crown winner this year. that's because the horse i'll have another won't have another. the heavy favorite to win tomorrow's belmont stakes has been pulled from the race. this happened in just the last half hour. no reason has been given yet for the scratch. richard roth is at the track for us. richard, what are the rumblings as to what could have possibly happened? >> reporter: well, from various reports people who have spoken with the trainer of i'll have another and his camp, it's an injury problem with the left behind leg. we're going to hear more at a press conference in a little while. the importance of this race is certainly known, but the people behind i'll have another, they

want to take care of this horse. they want to be able to have him go to a successful breeding career, a lucrative breeding career, and they're not going to take a chance despite the momentous occasion tomorrow, the belmont stakes. he was on the verge of possibly becoming the 12th triple crown winner in history. there's been none since 1978. now, there's been a lot of buzz and talk. we saw the horse gallop practice early, two hours ahead of the normal schedule, in early sunlight here at about 6:15, 6:20 a.m. a little surprised. we have video of the horse. a trainer has told reporters that he was suspicious this morning when he saw an ultrasound machine in i'll have another's barn. dale romans, the trainer, saying devastating for him, for the race, for the opportunity to get to the triple crown. quote, i thought it was going to be one of the biggest races in history and we wanted him to be a part of it. everybody loses on this.

it would have been an exciting race late tomorrow afternoon. no triple crown, as you said, this year. >> wow. incredible. so there was the sight of the ultrasound machine. that was an indicator, but when that horse was training this morning, did it appear to limp? did anyone mention or comment that it didn't look like it was comfortable on the track? >> reporter: no. i couldn't tell. you didn't hear anybody say anything, but i talked to one pre friend who is a veteran racetra racetracker, who said you don't tamper with a horse's routine. when somebody tries out a horse at 6:15 in the morning away from prying eyes, it could be an early indication of a problem. >> what about the horse's trainer, o'neil? there had been a lot of discussions about his pending

suspension not related to this horse but others. where is that? >> reporter: well, doug o'neil, i asked him this week about t t that, he denied when i said have you ever made a horse go faster? from all reports certainly i'll have another has had no link to any substance problem. the doug o'neil situation in california, he was suspended for 45 days on an issue that the california racing board said was not necessarily o'neil's fault. he'll serve the suspension later, but right now the focus on i'll have another and what happened. i'll have another was loaded into a special detention barn with horses set up by the officials at belmont to make sure there was no chicanery or some suspicious activity days ahead of time, loading all the contenders in one special barn. a lot of trainers were not happy. they didn't like their horses get acclimated to another situation. >> i heard about that yesterday.

apparently that was an unusual thing, a measure taken this go around that isn't usually taken, this detention barn. >> reporter: you don't often see it, but everybody dealt with it. they knew the problems. they knew of o'neil's issues but whoever was going to win this belmont stakes, they didn't want any accusations of any problems. the racing industry and drug use, that's been something for decades. different states have different rules. right now the focus is on i'll have another and the shocking announcement that on the eve of the race, he's not going to run. four years ago when big brown ran for the triple crown he was eased up near the end of the race and there were a lot of suspicions about the trainer and that horse and big brown, but we don't even get a race this time. everybody thought i'll have another had a very good chance. so you remember the name, smarty jones, war emblem, sunniside, silver charm. these are all horses since 1997 have failed on the track behind me at bell mott to achieve the elusive triple crown of american

horse racing. >> everyone thought this one just might have another. big disappointment. not just for the -- all the fans, of course, but for the horse and, of course, all the trainers and the jockey who was looking forward to hopefully riding it to that triple crown. richard roth, thanks so much. there's going to be a press conference involving some of the parties there in about 30 or 40 minutes? >> reporter: i'm sorry? >> is there a press conference that's scheduled in about 30 or 40 minutes? >> reporter: oh, yes. at the barn near us, there will be a press conference at 1:00. >> keep us posted on that. thanks so much. why more young people than ever are avoiding visits to the doctor. and you can watch cnn live on your computer while you're at work. head to cnn.com/tv.

millions of people in their teens and 20s are skipping medical treatments they need because of sticker shock. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange to break down a just released report. alison, just how widespread is this problem? >> you know what, fredricka, it's a huge problem. more than 40% of 19 to

29-year-olds who have insurance said no way, i'm not getting medical care because of how much it costs, and listen to this. it's even worse if you don't have insurance. 60% of young people said i'm not going to take medical care if -- especially since we don't have insurance. one thing is a thing that sticks out is doctors are noticing more of these young people just tune out their doctor's advice altogether when they hear how much it's going to cost. so what they're doing is they're not filling prescriptions, they're skipping recommended tests and they're not getting specialists care even when they need it, and we're seeing also once again that these people who have insurance are struggling because many employers are cutting back on health care coverage and benefits and, you know, there's a big shift in cost to workers, those dedistrictables are higher along with co-payments and co-insurance. >> that means if there were problems, they're only exacerbated by ignoring them, not getting the medication, et cetera. clearly, that's going to have a bigger impact on their finances, wouldn't it? joots going to be huge.

the survey found 43% of young people with medical debt used up all their savings just to pay their bills. a third took on credit card debt. even worse, many said because of their medical bills going higher and higher, they couldn't pay for basic necessities like food or rent. the affordable care act let's young people stay on their insurance until they're 26, that's helped with the cost of insurance itself. but the bad news, it's just a provision right now. it's not a law. it could make things tougher for a huge population of young people if the supreme court strike it is down. the supreme court is expected to make a ruling at the end of the month. >> very good, alison. . stick with me here. you have probably interviewed or met billionaire investor warren buffett, right? >> i have, yes, i have. >> that's what i figured. and even having had that kind of close encounter, you probably would still want to do lunch with him, right? >> sure. you can never have enough interview time with a guy like that. >> if you do have lunch with

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current tax rates, and the president should assure the nation that when this bill gets to his desk he will sign it into law. now, we also know that the president's health care law is making it harder for small businesses to hire, and we know that it must be repealed in its entirety. this morning we learned more about the back room deals that were made that led to its passage. e-mails obtained by the energy and commerce committee show that the white house traded billions of dollars in policy concessions to pharma for millions of dollars worth of advertising. the administration created and managed a super pac paid for by pharma and run by jim messina out of the west wing of the white house. this is wrong, and the administration must be held accountable for their actions. >> good afternoon.

as the speaker said, we just listened to the president say that the private sector is doing fine, and my question would be to the president, are you kidding? did he see the job numbers that came out last week? the private sector is not doing fine. and, frankly, i'd ask the president to stop engaging in the blame game. it's not because of the headwinds of europe. it's not, despite his attempt and his party's attempts here in congress, it is not because of house republicans. it's because of the failed stimulus policies and other items in his agenda that small businesses in this country just aren't growing. and we know as the speaker said, it's too tough right now to start a small business. small businesses are struggling because of the uncertainty. they're facing prospects of the largest tax increase in american history. they're facing uncertainty connected with health care costs because of obama care, and

they're facing uncertainty because of a very hostile regulatory posture being taken by the obama administration here in washington. and our summer agenda is going to be directly focused on how we can make the environment better for small business men and women to grow and create jobs in this country. we're going to take a bill to the floor that will ensure that taxes won't go up on anybody. we're going to take several measures to the floor that begin to cut the red tape and roll back the regulations that this administration continues to churn out making it more difficult for businesses to create jobs. and, yes, we're going to take to the floor a bill that calls for the total repeal of obama care so that we can start over and we can tell the american people we're on your side, we care about your health care, we want quality care and affordable price for as many americans that are there looking for that to happen. thank you. >> speaker boehner, do you think

the lack of federal money, state and public sector jobs is hurting the economy? >> no, i believe government continues to spend money that we don't have. and the fact is that with these looming tax hikes and the regulations coming out of washington, we have frozen employers in place. and if we would have a moratorium on regulations and extend all of the current tax rates, we would free employers, provide more certainty for them to go out to begin to hire the american people. >> do you disagree with what the speaker stated yesterday, this europe is a drag on the economy? >> sure, europe is a problem. there's no question. it's providing a liquidity issue to global -- to the global economy. there is certainly is sense that governments on that continent are not addressing their problems, and it should be a signal to all of us that we've got to get serious. i agree wholeheartedly with the

speaker. we have continued as a house majority to put forward solutions and to tell the truth and to say we're here to help solve the problems and lead. >> but just because europe has problems doesn't mean that we can't begin to solve our problems. we can help american job creators by taking the actions that we've outlined. there's no excuse why we should wait for the convenience of an election. let's get to work today. >> -- one of the reasons that europe is in the situation it's in is because of the austerity measures they took and are house republican advocating for the same -- >> the reason europe is in the shape that it's in is because they waited too long to deal with their problems. it's why i was insistent last summer that we address our deficit and our debt problem. it's why again last month i called for us to address our deficit and our debt problem. remember one thing, it's the

debt in europe, and if we don't get busy dealing with our debt, we're going to be in the same shape. we have time to deal with this. but understand that the debt is also tied to jobs. this $16 trillion worth of debt serves like a wet blanket over our economy, scaring employers of all size. and if you want to create more certainty for employers, let's extend the tax rates. let's stop the regulatory onslaught, and let's deal with our debt. then we'll give job creators in america the freedom to go out there and create the jobs that they want to create. thanks. >> in concert there on capitol hill, john boehner and eric cantor critical of the president of the united states' assessment of the economy as it pertained to the private sector growth and even the european financial crisis. and also making a pledge of the summer agenda. eric continue o cantor saying t

republicans in congress will be focusing on how to make things better. number two, taxes won't go up on anybody he says, and there will be a total repeal of the health care reform sponsored by the president and pushed by the president of the united states. so we'll continue to monitor the developments there. the back and forth between capitol hill, the republicans, and the president in the white house. we'll keep you posted on all those developments. and all you need is a little saliva from the dad and a blood sample from the pregnant mom. we started to tell you a little bit more about that earlier. we're going to revisit that. how you can get the genetic blueprint of your baby. we'll get a look at the brave new world of parenthood. hey there. thanks for joining us. today on the help desk we're talking about student loans and joining me to help explain all of it lynette is a personal finance author and founder of the financial vice blog ask the money coach.com. and david novak is a certified financial planner anded a

junction p adjunct professor of finance. >> i'm a teacher and i have quite a bit of student loan debt. i'm trying to find out what programs are available to help me pay down that debt. >> how much debt do you have? >> quite a bit. enough to buy a bmw. >> so let's say he has $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 at least in student loan debt. what's your advice? >> my advice would be depending on the type of school or institution he's working for, there may be programs where they may forgive some of the debt. but assuming that's not the case, he should probably take a look at what debt he has and focus on paying off the highest interest debt, although he may have a lot of student loan debt, many of those debts may be tax deductible as well as at a fairly low interest rate. if he sets up a repayment schedule, it's reasonable, he should be able to pay that off. >> and the highest interest first obviously. a lot of student debt isn't forgivable even through brubs.

>> that's right. you really can't discharge that in bankruptcy court. another strategy to think about is picking the shortest repayment plan. if you enter the standard loan repayment program for federal student loans you'll knock out those loans in ten years. if you can't afford your student loan debt, pick the income-based repayment option and it lets you pay about 15% of your discretionary income. >> he's a teacher so he's obviously not making that much money but he's doing good. if you have a question you want our financial experts to tackle, upload a 30-second video with your help desk question to i-report.com. this man is about to be the millionth customer. would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fifty thousand dollars.

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a look into the future? researchers now say they can create a genetic blueprint of a feous just from the saliva of the father and a blood sample from the pregnant mom. i want to bring in robert glitzman, a bioeth gist at columbia and author of the book "am i my genes?" what kinds of questions does this raise for you? >> on the one hand this technology can enable us to eliminate serious diseases like down syndrome and even diseases that can kill a child but there get to be difficulties because we all have mutations in us for about six diseases that may or may not occur based on other things in the environment. so we may find that a child has a mutation that will give him or her deafness and some parents may say, i don't want to have a deaf child. there's a lot of uncertainty as i describe in the book, a lot of genetic information is not going to be black or white but more

like predicting the weather. a child has 50% chance of developing breast cancer. the fetus have a 50% chance of developing autism. some parents may say yes, some say no. we need to start think being these issues and educating ourselves to know what to do. >> you made a giant leap there. you said potentially eliminating something like down's syndrome. is it eliminate down's syndrome or what it is is it equips people to know there's a potential for down's syndrome? >> we have a choice. by getting a little blood stick from the mother, nothing invasive, and a little saliva from the father, they will be able to say that your child will develop down's syndrome. some parents may say, okay, i'm willing to live with that, that's what god gives me. other parents say i have a child with down's syndrome, it's too hard and they may i don't want another child like that and they may terminate the pregnancy.

again, parents may decide, okay of cour , i'm going to be prepared or that's not something i want. it's a slippery slope. some parents say i don't want to have a boy or i don't want to have a girl. or as we develop tests for homosexuality, some parents may say i don't want to have a gay child. these are larger social questions we need to start thinking about. there's also issues about false paternity. if we get this sa va from the father in 3% of the cases we'll find that father is not the father of that fetus, that child, and that's a whole other set of issues. >> then, you know, here is another question then. i wonder has our public policy held up to these rapid developments in genetics? >> as we go forward or understanding of genetics is going like this. every week there's discovery of other markers and there are

questions. there is a genetic information nondiscrimination act, but this technology will give parents' information about their own genes and that could lead to discrimination potentially or life insurance and disability insurance and there's the question that in europe these technologies are heavily regulated and they're not in the united states. in the united states if doctors want to do it, if parents want to do it, many people say that given the case of octo mom a few years ago for instance and now this technology that we as a society should begin to think and maybe have policymakers say there are some things we should not allow and certain things that are okay to allow. as we go forward we as a society need to think about this. there may be room for policy and we need to begin to think, as we just heard, many people are against regulations, but others may say we shouldn't be eliminating, terminating pregnancies because a child may be gay or have low intelligence or be deaf.

should we leave these decisions up to just parents what they want to do and doctors? should there be a role for government? they are complicated issues we need to start to consider and educate ourselves about, and it's hard, as i said, because much of the genetic information will be uncertain. it's going to be you have a 20% chance of autism a 50% chance of this disease. some people may say that's too much for me, i don't want a fetus that may develop breast cancer. >> the responses have run the gamut. some kinding finding it fascina some very frightening. thank you, professor. a crackdown on child predators around the world. we'll tell but a huge international raid. tap... pinch... and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry. we haven't forgotten.

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to egypt now and you're about to see the most unlikely warrior in the people's struggle for justice. just a year into the post mubarak area. cnn's ben wedeman in cairo. >> reporter: this woman hardly looks like a street fighter but her attitude has always been that the battle for change in egypt must be in the street. >> he bring me tent. >> reporter: she's joined a hunger strike/sit-in outside the egyptian parliament to demand implementation of the so-called political isolation law which outlaws the participation in politics of figures from the regime of ousted president hosni mubarak. in particular ahmed shafiq, mubarak's last prime minister, who is one of the two candidates for the presidency. a week before the outbreak of the egyptian revolution in january of last year, she posted this emotional appeal on

facebook. her message of dignity and defiance galvanized hundreds of thousands of egyptians fed up with the oppression of the aging mubarak regime. but that was then, and this is now. the joy that greeted mubarak's fall has been replaced by uncertainty and upheaval. egypt's new rulers, the generals of the supreme council of the armed forces, sometimes using methods as brutal if not more so than the old ruler. >> this our mistake because we trusted p ee eed them. >> reporter: she was convicted and sentenced in absentia to a year in prison for assaulting a man during a demonstration last year. she's due in court next tuesday hoping to appeal or overturn the sentence. >> they are trying. this is like trying for bottom and they are trying to make us

very tired. >> reporter: hers is typical of the story of many of the young firebrands of the egyptian revolution, initially cheered as idealistic heroes, then vilified in the state-run media as troublemakers. >> we had no justice in egypt, and we are -- we will not stop our struggle and we will not fear from them. we do it from mubarak and we will not fear now from them. >> reporter: given her track record the authorities may, however, have reason to fear asmaa. ben wedeman, cnn, cairo. and 14 people have been affected by a new e. coli outbreak in the south. it killed one toddler. we have more on the search for a source. if you are one of the millions of men

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